Rocatti had lost all feeling and motion in his legs after the motorbike crash. But thanks to electrodes implanted in their spines in experimental surgery in Lausanne, Switzerland, he and two other you...
Remember Skynet, the artificial intelligence that wanted to wipe out humanity in the Terminator movies? Now that is an example of AI gone wrong. Luckily, this will not be the case for us in 2022. AI t...
Legislation introduced last week would require companies to assess the impact of AI and automated systems they use to make decisions affecting people’s employment, finances, housing and more. The Algo...
They are successful and glamorous, in a Bushwick, Brooklyn, sort of way. And on Tuesday, U.S. officials arrested them on allegations they sought to launder billions of dollars worth of crypto stemming...
For the past few decades, anxious parents, educators, and politicians have latched onto the idea that teaching kids to code would be a surefire way to prepare them for “the workforce of tomorrow.” But...
View the high resolution version of this infographic. Buy the poster. The inflation rate in the U.S. has surged, reaching 7% year-over-year in December 2021. This marks the highest level in 40 years. ...
There’s a key question about cryptocurrency on the front page of your tax return this season. You need to answer yes if you sold, exchanged, mined or made purchases with digital currency. If you don’t...
I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and that far from being neat and tidy, those stories are...
Scientists in China created an AI robot system that cares for human embryos growing in artificial wombs, a report from The Independent reveals. When we think of AI-monitored humans in artificial wombs...
Artificial intelligence is all around us today, and it’s starting to play a larger role in our lives than ever before. AI is present in everything from Google searches to self-driving cars. More often...
Sammy was diagnosed with Autism at a young age. I first met him through his Microsoft internship application and followed him on his path to becoming a full-time employee. Sammy is not his real name, ...
To TheStreet’s Kevin Curran, the metaverse is a forest while Meta Platforms FB (formerly Facebook) is a tree. That’s okay, he said. After all, money grows on trees. “After the newly renamed Meta Platf...
It’s been more than 50 years since HAL, the malevolent computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, first terrified audiences by turning against the astronauts he was supposed to protect. That cinemat...
The transition towards a cashless society on the Isle of Man « must not leave people behind », the enterprise minister has said. His department has agreed to monitor the ATM network and to « plug any ...
If scientists understood exactly how electrons act in molecules, they’d be able to predict the behavior of everything from experimental drugs to high-temperature superconductors. Following decades of ...